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I hope you got to watch the Season Finale of Daphne Dishes. Backyard Camping. Check out recipes here. It was great to make the 13 episodes for season 2 and I worked with such lovely people. Everyone was super kind and supportive of my kids which is was my first priority.

crew photo

shooting Daphne Dishes

friend and Production assistant takes my kids to school

My kids are good sports about having a wacky mom who has a camera enter their home at regular intervals. First for Coolmom and Momversation and now Daphne Dishes. They are use to people being in our home and are happy to see them when they return.

kitchen crew Daphne Dishes

You can’t do this alone! Food Producer Tim Macklin, Food stylist David Domedion ( who also works with Pioneer Woman Ree Drummond), Food stylist Sarah Blair. They make the food look pretty for beauties and help me figure out how to make things look better, taste better from my original idea. For example: I make something and it’s not quite right to me. We all stick our spoons in it, “needs more honey, needs a bit of lime juice, no, I think it’s fine, etc” While the camera folk are standing around waiting for us to make up our mind. We had a tight schedule for season 2 and Mark was busy with Bombo opening so Sarah and I worked form 10 to 8 every day a for a week before shooting testing recipes. Some were not finalized till we were on set. Tim always let Rex play a game on his phone when he asked. Sarah was very motherly to the kids. Nice people.

I like to work with people I’ve worked with before. So our second camera was Chung Ming Huang, who shot some of my best Cool mom Vids and even made a cameo once

Make up and hair artist Crystal Bernal ( oh I wish I could the braids she can do) and Brittany Merideth, stylist Lauren Francis. I worked with them all at TV Guide Channel. Lauren has dressed me, skinny, fat, pregnant, not pregnant, crying after my dad’s death, inbetween nursing. She is unflappable and always sees me prettier than I see myself. Which is nice when you are getting naked in front of people! Lauren always let Vivien be her assistant when she came home from school. Viv has an eye! Vivien hates getting her hair cut, but one day she allowed Crystal to give her a trim.

with stylist Lauren Francis..I’m doing my mean look

Our super sweet producer Craig Anderson of Concentric. He took us out to dinner the day we shot our last shot for Season 2. Food Network had me meet a few producers when we were figuring out this show and I picked Craig. He has a very warm vibe, he is a dad and was gentle with all of us as he helped me loosen up and be myself doing the hardest hosting I’ve ever done. Cooking and talk to camera is more difficult than it looks!

typical exchange when we worked on the pilot

“what are you doing?”

“stirring”

“Why?”

“so it blends, so it doesn’t burn”

“Say that to camera”

“Ok”

“smile when you talk”

“Oh”

“does this make you think of something.”

“um.. um ”

“did your mom make you this?”

“Oh, no she never made she would make..”

“Okay, tell us that story.”

“Ok”

“smile”

I do my thing

Craig, “That was great!”

Me: “it was?”

impossible to get a screen grab where I don’t look crazy. Hazards of an expressive nature

So, obviously I hope we are back for more. I have lot’s of recipes riffing off stuff I tasted in Europe and just fooling around as I slowly got my colon back in order. Thanks to all the folks who watch and gave us nice tweets and such. Keep going back and look up recipes. I know I do! If you missed any the shows are on itunes.

For those of you who are just finding my site through the show here is one of my more successful and madcap videos. It’s sort of food.. muffin.. except, not. Happy cooking.